Z'tirnats and Z'ad are going on a road trip! Well road and rail to be precise. We will be travelling to Churchill Northern Studies centre for 3 weeks in June.

One of the things that we were asked to do up there was to teach the school and the CNSC staff about geocaching, so there may be a few caches launched during our sojourn. At that time of year the sun is up for 20 hours, so caching from dawn to dusk is really a chore! If you wish to have a travel bug dipped in the frozen tundra caches up there while we are just let us know, we will be leaving June 12th.

Now you know where the cache I showed during the Cache hiding event will show up! I told you it would be a future Manitoba Geocache!

We will be asking for some supplies prior to heading up there to entice the Far Northerners to become MBGA members so be ready for the call!

I seen your post, and no the train going to Churchill does not travel through Pukatawagon. The train from the Peg runs through the Pas, and then you have to connect with the new rail line assinippi Railway, owned by the Mathious Colomb Band (Puk).
But if you want some coins to take up North Let me know how I can perhaps find some travelers to send with you.
I even have a few coins you can place as prizes (unactivated) if you think that will help.
Keep in mind of GC's rule of being able to maintaine the cache if you are not from that area, they are very sticky over this rule.
I live in The Pas, and if you stop in The Pas on the way to Churchill check out the close proximity of two caches by the train station here...you may have an hour stop while they fuel the train...who knows we may even meet.

Thanks so much Slippery. We are very much aware of the maintenance criteria, that is why we will be having a workshop with the local CNSC as well as the local school. They are very interested in GPSr and Geocaching and are anxious to learn and launch there own in the area. We will be taking up potential cache containers, MBGA cache stickers, log books and anything else required for the local community to launch some caches. Then they will be on their own. As people come from all over the world it would be a nice addition to have more caches available in the far North. We would love to have some unactivated coins as prizes. Please e-mail us to arrange this.

I used to consult at schools up the bayline: thicket portage, pikwitonei, ilford, gillam. only ever took the train once from thompson to gillam because it left earlier than the plane... got there 5 hours AFTER that same plane would have landed :p

It's too bad I wasn't into geo-caching 2 year ago. I traveled to Churchill with Manitoba Conservation to help band geese all the way from Churchill to York Factory. Flew up and down the coast in helicopter for almost 2 weeks. Could have put out a few geo-caches that only the most dedicated person could reach!! They would have been miles and miles from anywhere!

So, things are progressing wonderfully! We have some great stuff contributed by Slippery_1, Dragonfreys and Mhz (Paula, just forget you saw that cache being worked on in my backyard, you saw nothing, nothing) Thank you thank you.

Churchill is embracing Geocaching with a passion, we are now set up for 6 different presenations with different groups! And we are going on the hunt for the one geocache that has been out for a year and still not found!

Leaving June 12.......... Think if we try real hard we can make 500 before we go?

DO not tick off the Polar Bears, for though art crunchy and go good with Ketchup!

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